Speaker 1: Tsybud.
Speaker 2: This is the seventy seven w ABC Mini cast. Tony
Speaker 2: layled it a load in on me? Hey, layieled it
Speaker 2: a love in on me?
Speaker 1: Was that? And Key Bruce?
Speaker 2: Hi, Tony Orlando, Hi, my friend? How I So where
Speaker 2: in the world are you now? I can't keep up
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting next to my daughter Jenny Rose in her
Speaker 1: automobile in Branson, Missouri, listening to the best radio show
Speaker 1: on the planet Earth.
Speaker 2: Hi Jenny Brucy, Hi, Hi sweetie, Okay, I remember you well?
Speaker 2: Let me tell you you're part of my life.
Speaker 1: You're I know you're always part of mine too.
Speaker 2: I know you're in my birthday book.
Speaker 1: That was cousin Brucy the day you were born, gets Radiss.
Speaker 1: I guess what everybody know? Tony Landa just had a
Speaker 1: baby girl.
Speaker 2: But it was somebody else involved too, right, It wasn't
Speaker 2: only your Randy. Absolutely good. So where are you guys
Speaker 2: off to? What are you doing?
Speaker 1: Well? Believe it or not, Jenny's picking up Uh. She
Speaker 1: loves Indian food, So we're picking up some Indian food
Speaker 1: to take back home. Listening to you in the car
Speaker 1: having a good, good life.
Speaker 2: Rucie isn't that, you know, Tony? That makes me so
Speaker 2: happy when you say that. Good, good, Jenny. Make sure
Speaker 2: he enjoys life a little bit. Only does his work
Speaker 2: work work, work, work, work, work, work work. We're good. Yeah, So, Tony,
Speaker 2: I understand that you and I are going to be
Speaker 2: in a small ring again.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking for and I
Speaker 1: know that Lee's going to be there. Wood and Lee
Speaker 1: and I have been friends many you know, I know
Speaker 1: Lee Agreen with since he was he was working the
Speaker 1: lounges in Las Vegas. About him and he was a
Speaker 1: sax player and one of the best sax players ever.
Speaker 2: By the way, is that right? I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: Oh god, yes, he not only is a great songwriter artist.
Speaker 1: But man, let me tell you somethinge I hope he
Speaker 1: could play the sacks at the gallow that we're going
Speaker 1: to be doing.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe I'll ask him, you know, I can run
Speaker 2: up and maybe one of us can run up and
Speaker 2: ask ask the guy with the sacks if we can
Speaker 2: borrow it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's awesome.
Speaker 2: How do you like that? Well? You two? I mean,
Speaker 2: you mentioned Lee green Wood, you mentioned Tony Orlando, you
Speaker 2: mentioned two of the greatest patriotic songs that we've had
Speaker 2: in how many years, eight hundred years or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know, a long time, Lucy, when you analyze it,
Speaker 1: really urban Berlin, God bless you know, Goderica. So that's
Speaker 1: a hundred years ago.
Speaker 2: Now wait a minute, woo woah, wooh, whoo are you serious?
Speaker 2: One hundred years?
Speaker 1: Let's go back, if you go back to nineteen twenties,
Speaker 1: what would that be?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Hey, I'm still figuring out what three
Speaker 2: and three years? You know. Let me go on hundred years.
Speaker 1: One when you and I first met. Yeah, that's sixty
Speaker 1: five years ago.
Speaker 2: Wow. Is that amazing? Yeah? You just don't think of music,
Speaker 2: say Irving, Berlin or any kind of recorded music being
Speaker 2: one hundred years old. Wow, is it?
Speaker 1: Boy?
Speaker 2: I'll tell you it's going fast. Huh ooh these years
Speaker 2: ago fast?
Speaker 1: You know when Lee wrote that, little did we know,
Speaker 1: both of us, that we would be part of something
Speaker 1: very special for the country, Because no one has I
Speaker 1: don't think ever inspired a country more than Lee's God
Speaker 1: Blessed the USA, and certainly Larry Brown and Earl Levian
Speaker 1: who wrote Yellow Ribbon to Welcome Home. Not only are
Speaker 1: Iranian hostages in nineteen forty seven years ago, but also
Speaker 1: our bodubs a Vietnam voting allow us at every military
Speaker 1: soldier since then. So really, these these guys, Lee Greenwood,
Speaker 1: Arba Lebene, Larry Brown, they really did write two of
Speaker 1: the greatest I think patriotic songs in the last hundred years.
Speaker 2: Did you when you first heard the Yellow Ribbon? Did
Speaker 2: you know that there was something going along there? Did
Speaker 2: you have a feeling, because you know you have a
Speaker 2: very sensitive character, all right, did you know that there
Speaker 2: was something special about that tune? That song? No no
Speaker 2: I did did not.
Speaker 1: No. As a matter of fact, I didn't think it
Speaker 1: would be a hit because I think I said, I
Speaker 1: just come off knock three times. They think that's a
Speaker 1: novelty song. Now it's tying of a ribbon around the tree.
Speaker 1: I didn't see it. I really didn't see it until
Speaker 1: just before about to cut the album. I couldn't stop
Speaker 1: singing the chorus. Well, tie, you couldn't stop. So I
Speaker 1: called Hank Medras, the producer, and I said, listen, if
Speaker 1: you we record this, would you mind making sure that
Speaker 1: Telma of Dawn and Joys of Dawn Records Solos I
Speaker 1: just don't want them to be background singers. And that
Speaker 1: was a bargaining ship for me to have these sing solos.
Speaker 1: That's what that was to me. But God had a
Speaker 1: plan for me, like always, for something else. That became
Speaker 1: a signature hit for me, certainly a homecoming song for
Speaker 1: our military and those who have been kidnapped.
Speaker 2: That's a great story. You always have you, You know,
Speaker 2: your your life is like a story book, but it's real.
Speaker 2: It's not a novel, it's real life. Good for you,
Speaker 2: my friends. Oh, we've been blessed having you in our lives.
Speaker 2: And I've been blessed having you in my life. Tody too.
Speaker 2: Tody's shaking her head to you, which is good. So tonight,
Speaker 2: what's happening on me?
Speaker 1: My girl?
Speaker 2: Her birthday is this coming Wednesday? By the way, Tony,
Speaker 2: birthday to you.
Speaker 1: Happy birthday to you, Happy birth day, dear Jody, Happy
Speaker 1: birthday to you, and many more.
Speaker 3: Honey you what.
Speaker 2: Tony, honey? How many people does ever have Tony Orlando
Speaker 2: singing your personal life birthday message? My birthday's in October. No, no,
Speaker 2: don't start now later, okay, Tony, what's happening tonight on
Speaker 2: the on the program well, you know, we.
Speaker 1: Both realized that. Of course in the sixties the British invasion,
Speaker 1: but we were What we forgot is that there was
Speaker 1: another invasion. It was girl power. If you analyze the sixties,
Speaker 1: you will see everyone from the Cherelle's to the Ramets
Speaker 1: to the Sweet Inspirations. They dominated the charts even during
Speaker 1: the British invasion. So tonight it's girl power. And as
Speaker 1: my guest I have is Stelle Brown, who is one
Speaker 1: of the Sweet Inspirations who had that different inspiration and
Speaker 1: also did all the backgrounds and all singing with Elvis
Speaker 1: all those years.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be fun. I love the girl groups, you know.
Speaker 2: It's every time I say girl groups, I almost hesitate
Speaker 2: because I don't know if Jodie's going to be set
Speaker 2: by saying, you know, the women, the ladies that like
Speaker 2: the word girls some of them. But they but we
Speaker 2: we don't mean anything by that, right, I mean, there's
Speaker 2: nothing negative. It was what we call them. They were
Speaker 2: girl groups and they were what girls they were? Oh boy,
Speaker 2: were they something.
Speaker 1: Had Runnetts. You had the Angels, remember that?
Speaker 2: Oh sure, sure, yeah sure.
Speaker 1: And when you when you asked me when I come
Speaker 1: on the show. What song I should play? What do
Speaker 1: you think of this? Grucie? Would you say that? Be
Speaker 1: my baby? LAANX, says one of the queens of that
Speaker 1: period of time in terms of girl cooks the runnets.
Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you, if there was ever a
Speaker 2: map and somebody planned girl groups, that would be right
Speaker 2: on the map, and that would be the prototype. Absolutely
Speaker 2: you introduce you, my friend, Love you, Tony, and I'll
Speaker 2: see you on the eleventh, See you on the eleventh.
Speaker 1: God bless you, Tody. Hey, everybody, this is it Ronnie
Speaker 1: and the ron ask the girl Powa groops of the
Speaker 1: sixties with be my baby, and.
Speaker 3: I greeve that I know dy you so.
Speaker 4: Never let you go?
Speaker 3: So well, thank you love me.
Speaker 4: So we'll make you turn their heads every teleast we
Speaker 4: go and leave.
Speaker 3: You say be t me baby, and I think you happy. Baby.
Speaker 3: Just wait an see whatever can you give me. I'll
Speaker 3: give you a free Oh today, my sy.
Speaker 4: I have been waiting for you.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I put to you.
Speaker 4: To turn up no one thing by my baby. Say
Speaker 4: baby next.
Speaker 3: Day, Amen, babies.
Speaker 2: Same, I love him. That's Tony Orlando. Everybody, We're gonna
Speaker 2: be together. We have were our gala, our big gala
Speaker 2: coming up on the eleventh and Chippreos. Maybe they'll let
Speaker 2: me eat this time. I don't know that John doesn't
Speaker 2: do him feed me something. He always thinks keeping me hungry.
Speaker 2: But I had a hot dog once there, and Jody
Speaker 2: loves the food. Everybody raves about the steak and steak there,
Speaker 2: and John certainly feeds himself well and Margo and everything.
Speaker 2: But they sort of forget because and give me a
Speaker 2: hot dog. But you know something not a bad thing,
Speaker 2: because if you feel hungry, you know, if you do
Speaker 2: a better job. I swear if you go into a show,
Speaker 2: Let's take this really, If you go and do a show,
Speaker 2: and you can ask Tony or anybody who's a performer,
Speaker 2: and you are full, not the way to do a show.
Speaker 2: You want to go in there feeling, you know, a
Speaker 2: little hungry, which is good, ladies and gentlemen. I'm looking
Speaker 2: forward to It's going to be a great night with
Speaker 2: Lee and Tony